Clifton Chenier

"Clifton was a great influence on me,” Mick [Jagger] says of the zydeco accordionist. “We first listened to him around 1965 when we went to the States and picked up his records on the Arhoolie label.”

Mick on the song I’m a Hog for You, one of 5 songs he selected for a custom world music playlist for UK-based Songlines Magazine: “This is a shuffle with the washboard picking up the triplets and it moves along in the classic Chenier style that he really put on the map. We first met up with the band in Los Angeles, I think, and I love the way he just grabs a blues number and adapts it to his style. Now his son is out on the road playing the same accordion and it’s all in the great Louisiana tradition.”